Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Whatever you lose (like a you or a me)

Here is a video of "Maggie and Milly and Molly and May," performed by Natalie Merchant and based upon the poem by E.E. Cummings. It's off of the album, "Leave Your Sleep." I read the poem aloud to my daughter, and then she wanted more Cummings poems. I realized that I was going to have to search for awhile in my Complete Poems collection for the ones appropriate for her, so I decided to switch to Carl Sandburg's collection for children called Wind Song. Has anyone set Sandburg's poems to music?

5 comments:

Wow - I guess when you're so young, the wordplay of cummings would definitely sound fun, but the themes are a bit unwieldy for the young mind. I still think my fave cummings is loneliness because it looked so neat.